Short Biography

Professor Sharon Toker is currently an Associate Professor at Tel Aviv University’s Coller School of Management. She graduated from Tel Aviv University, completing her B.A. in Psychology and Sociology (1997) and her PhD in Organizational Behavior with distinction (Accelerated Doctoral Program, 2007).

In 2007-2008 Prof. Toker completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University and soon after joined the Department of Organizational Behavior in Tel Aviv University’s Coller School of Management.

Prof. Toker served as the head of the Department of Organizational Behavior, and as the head of the Organizational Consulting Program.

Prof. Toker has published more than 30 papers and book chapters, and currently serves as the associate editor of the Occupational Health Science journal (the new official journal of the Society of Occupational Health), as well as a member of the editorial boards of both the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology (JOHP) and the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology (JOOP).

In 2013, Prof. Toker was awarded the Early Career Achievement Award by the American Psychological Association (APA) and the National Institute of Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH). In addition, she was granted the Tel Aviv University Rector Award for the Faculty of Management’s Best Lecturer (2013) as well as the Coller School of Management’s teaching awards in 2013, 2015, and 2016. Prof. Toker is also an illustrator, translating her research findings into visual images.

Fields of Research

Prof. Toker’s research strives to discover the extent to which occupational and environmental factors, stress perceptions, and organizational resources affect the physical and mental wellbeing of employees. By combining various areas of knowledge such as occupational psychology, cognition, and medicine, in addition to conducting experimental as well as observational longitudinal studies among thousands of employees, she points to the risk involved in exposure to occupational and environmental stressors (including the fear of terrorism). She also strives to identify effective ways of coping with such risks. Her studies combine new models and constructs that are at the forefront of current psycho-occupational research (e.g., stress perceptions and mind wandering). As an expert in the field of work stress and health, Prof. Toker’s research serves as the basis for policy change on both national and international scales.